- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Director
- Compensation
- $182,450–313,650/year
- Department
- Creative, Design & Styling
- Posted
- Sep 22, 2026
About MAC
MAC is a pioneering professional makeup authority, renowned for its artistry, inclusivity, and influential role in shaping contemporary beauty culture. Founded in Toronto in 1984 and now part of The Estée Lauder Companies, the brand empowers employees to champion self-expression, creativity, and diversity across retail, education, product innovation, and consumer experience. As an employer, MAC offers a dynamic, fast-paced environment where artistry meets commercial excellence, encouraging talent to develop deep product expertise, client relationships, and cultural awareness. Its heritage of supporting all ages, races, and genders continues to define a workplace built on bold ideas, collaboration, and authentic individuality.
The Executive Director, Global Image & Social leads M·A·C's day-to-day creative vision and execution across global image and social platforms, reporting to the VP of Global Creative. This role bridges strategic creative direction with operational excellence, translating brand vision into culturally relevant campaigns, social content, video, and creator-led storytelling across all major touchpoints. The ideal candidate combines elevated creative sensibility with robust team leadership capability, managing multidisciplinary teams while overseeing creative quality, production timelines, and cross-functional alignment with marketing, artistry, PR, and regional teams.
Role & Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the VP, Global Creative to develop and execute global creative concepts across image, campaigns, social, and content ecosystems
- Translate creative vision into clear direction for teams, ensuring prioritization, alignment, and consistent brand-defining output
- Oversee creative direction and cadence for M·A·C's global social presence, ensuring consistency, platform-specificity, and brand integrity
- Develop and manage social programming rhythm across campaign launches, always-on content, creator collaborations, artistry, education, and real-time moments
- Guide the translation of campaigns and product launches into social ecosystems, including video, short-form content, stills, motion, and ongoing storytelling
- Manage the creative process from concept through production, post-production, delivery, and final asset handoff
- Ensure creative quality and consistency across campaigns, image, social, in-store, experiential, events, video, and emerging social formats
- Lead and directly manage the Image and Social creative teams day to day, including workload prioritization, performance feedback, and team development
- Mentor and support team members, fostering accountability, collaboration, creativity, and consistently high standards
- Present creative concepts and updates to senior leadership and cross-functional partners
- Provide clear guidance to regional teams on global creative adaptation while maintaining brand consistency
- Brief and manage external creative talent, agencies, photographers, directors, editors, and production partners
Qualifications
- BA or BFA degree required
- 13+ years of experience in senior creative, image, social, content, or brand leadership roles
- Minimum 3–4 years of direct experience managing a full creative team with direct reports, workload management, and performance feedback
- Strong background in beauty, fashion, luxury, culture, or highly image-driven brand environments
- Proven track record leading multidisciplinary creative teams across image, social, video, campaign, and content work
- Demonstrated understanding of modern image-making, social storytelling, creator ecosystems, and emerging social formats
- Extensive knowledge of social platform behavior, audience development, content cadence, and engagement pattern analysis
- Experience managing creative projects from concept through production and final delivery
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, and PowerPoint
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment
Skills
Experience
13+ years of progressive creative leadership experience in beauty, fashion, luxury, or image-driven brand environments, with a minimum of 3–4 years of direct team management experience including hiring, performance development, and accountability. Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary creative teams across image, social, video, and campaign deliverables from concept through final execution. Proven expertise in social platform strategy, content cadence, and real-time engagement, with strong background in campaign rollout and always-on programming.
Education
Bachelor's degree (BA or BFA) required
Compensation
The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 182,450 to USD 313,650 per annum.
Benefits
Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results, share incentive plan
Culture
MAC fosters a dynamic, artist-led workplace where creativity, individuality, and inclusive self-expression are central to the employee experience. The brand offers a fast-paced, collaborative environment in which beauty professionals are encouraged to build their artistry, connect authentically with diverse clients, and represent a bold global point of view.
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